Creative Business and Social Innovations for a Sustainable Future

A MRI View of Brain Tumor Outcome Prediction.- Achieving Cognitive Skills in Multimedia through Revised Bloom Taxonomy.-  An Estimation for Bitcoin Price Volatility.- An Optimization Model for Solving Stochastic Cooperative Games.- Assessing and Explaining Technical Inefficiency in the Tunisian Insurance Industry: A Comparison of Some Parametric Time-Variant Models.- Banking Sector Performance and Economic Growth: An Empirical Evidence of UAE Islamic Banks.- Challenges of Business Schools to Implement Accreditation Standards: Case Study.- Control Environment, Risk Assessment and Monitoring in United Arab Emirates Businesses.- Creative Contributions and Solutions to Dubai's Challenges and Commitments as a Smart City: Transnationalizing and Personalizing Global Standards of Excellence in International.- Credit Risk Assessment Using Decision Tree and Support Vector Machine Based Data Analytics.- Death and Factors of Adjustment Among Bereaved Parents.- Determinants of Entry Modes Choice for MNEs: Exploring Major Challenges and Implications for Saudi Arabia.- Developing an Input Oriented Data Envelopment Analysis Model with Fuzzy Uncertainty in Variables.- Digital Currencies and the Power Shift in the Economy.- Evaluating Inclination of Youth to Start Enterprise: A Study in Oman.- Evidence-based Tobacco Control Mobile Apps Based on Federally Funded Research Projects.- Family Mediation in England and Wales: A Focus on Children.- Forecasting of the Internet Usage in the World Regions.- Impact of FDI on GDP and Unemployment in Macedonia Compared to Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Insurance Coverage for IPRs: Possible Solution for Businesses in the GCC.- Integration of Applied Linguistics and Business Communication: A Pilot Study.- Mapping Creative Pedagogies in Fashion Design Education - Fashion Design Program at American University in the Emirates as a Case

Dr. Miroslav Mateev is a Vice President for Research and Advancement and a full time Professor at the College of Business Administration at the American University in the Emirates.  Dr Mateev holds two doctoral degrees - PhD in Industrial Management and Doctor of Economic Sciences in Finance, from the University of National and World Economy, Sofia. Professor Mateev's interest in teaching was conceived 20 years ago during his MSc. degree study in International Finance at London Business School in the UK. He also specialized at Harvard Business School, where he focused on case writing and case teaching as part of his teaching methodology. He has published six textbooks and a number of papers in the areas of corporate finance, bank risk management, international financial management, M&A markets and foreign direct investment. Besides teaching, Prof. Mateev is actively engaged in consulting in the areas of foreign investment, corporate restructuring, project management, andothers.  Prior to working at AUE, Professor Mateev taught at the American University in Bulgaria and the University of Maine, Business School.

Dr. Panikkos Poutziouris is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business, the Rector at UCLan Cyprus, and Founder and Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Development Alliance and Research (CEDAR). Professor Panikkos graduated from the University of Nottingham with a BA in Economics, an MBA, and a Doctorate in Entrepreneurship and Management. For two decades, he was a Senior Lecturer and a visiting Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at the Manchester Business School of Manchester University, where he led the Research Program for the Financial Development of Family Businesses. Professor Panikkos teaches, educates, researches and advises around the world on the development of entrepreneurship and family business. He has led conferences and academic initiatives in England, China, Italy,